SOCCER IN AMERICA
VISIT OF SCOTTISH TEAM LITTLE INTEREST AROUSED England’s greatest sporting drawcard. soccer, has practicaily no appeal to United States crowds. The Scottish Football Association’s team recently made an eight weeks’ tour in Canada and the United States and easily won the 14 matches played. Generally, the attendance at matches in the United States was 2000 or 3000, or even less. The impression was that most of the people present were there out of curiosity, and not through any real interest in the game. • Even in New York, with its many millions of mixed population, this star team could not attract jnore than 15,000 spectators—a sharp contrast to the .150,000 at an international match at Hampden Park. Baseball, with its monopolistic hold on the affections of the people, has killed any chance of soccer establishing itself .in the United States. There are too few with a knowledge of the game to train footballers, and still fewer teams to maintain competitive interest.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20036, 7 September 1939, Page 16
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